Being fixed width is not an advantage. Code points aren't a very useful unit of text outside of the implementation of algorithms defined by unicode. All of thes

Being fixed width is not an advantage. Code points aren't a very useful unit of text outside of the implementation of algorithms defined by unicode. All of these algorithms generally require iteration anyway. O(1) code point indexing is nearly useless. http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points/ http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-...